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[00:11.23]When I was young my father taught me not to gloat.
[00:19.67]If I came home too proud of myself
[00:23.35]I get wrestled to the floor and choked.
[00:28.54]But I forgive him for that.
[00:31.73]He was an eighth grade drop out
[00:34.42]and I was being a brat.
[00:37.42]I forgive him, I do.
[00:40.35]I know that he loves me
[00:42.85]and he knows I love him too.
[00:45.92]When I was young my father told me,
[00:50.56]to each his own.
[00:54.37]The lady said as she kissed the cow,
[00:58.87]some like the fiddle,
[01:00.99]some like the trombone
[01:03.49]and I live by that rule.
[01:06.18]Your trip is your trip
[01:08.44]and my trip is my trip too. Yeah,
[01:12.25]I'll mind my own business.
[01:14.93]Oh, having no rules in my friend here have.
[01:20.37]I love my dad.
[01:22.47]I love my dad.
[01:24.66]I love my dad.
[01:26.72]I love my dad.
[01:28.91]I love my dad.
[01:30.97]I love my dad.
[01:36.97]Your kid goes to the private
[01:40.09]Berkley school with one black kid.
[01:45.47]My kid goes to the public school,
[01:49.22]came home with cracked ribs.
[01:54.53]And when my kid's eighteen
[01:57.33]he'll be out there like
[01:59.27]I was and probably chasing his dreams.
[02:03.27]And when your kid's twenty-two,
[02:06.14]he'll have an internship at a law firm
[02:09.77]and hey that's okay too.
[02:11.46]When I was five I came home from
[02:13.96]kindergarten crying cause they
[02:16.10]sat me next to an albino.
[02:20.10]My dad said son everyone's different,
[02:23.98]you gotta love em all equally.
[02:29.10]And then my dad sat me down,
[02:31.91]he said you gotta love all people,
[02:34.79]pink, red, black, or brown.
[02:37.41]And then just after dinner he played me
[02:41.10]the album They Only Come Out At Night by Edgar Winter.
[03:02.85]When I was young my dad
[03:05.36]taught me the beauty of patience.
[03:11.67]We'd go and hang with his friend
[03:13.98]Billy Brislin all day in his Stubenville basement.
[03:20.23]We'd watch wrestling matches on TV
[03:24.04]and Billy couldn't move cause he was handicapped.
[03:29.12]And I learned to shoot the shit,
[03:31.94]and how to care for those in need
[03:35.56]and to show respect.
[03:37.18]When I was a kid my dad brought
[03:40.25]home a guitar he got from Sears.
[03:46.00]I took lessons from a neighbor lady
[03:49.37]but it wasn't going anywhere.
[03:54.00]He went and got me a good teacher
[03:57.81]and in no time at all I was getting better.
[04:03.25]I can play just fine.
[04:06.19]I still practice a lot but not as much as Mills Climb.
[04:24.26]When I was young my dad
[04:26.88]told me to pay gossip no mind.
[04:33.45]When people talk bad on you you gotta
[04:36.95]flick it off your shoulder like a fly.
[04:41.89]Learn to pick your punches, don't get no tussles,
[04:48.76]dead in ditches. Life is short young man,
[04:53.70]get out there and make the best of it while you can.
[04:58.82]I ain't trying to say my dad
[05:02.07]was some kind of a perfect saint.
[05:07.26]When something set him off,
[05:09.31]I hit the floor quicker than what
[05:12.44]Mike Tyson did to Ricky Sveen.
[05:16.31]I hit the floor so fast,
[05:19.17]but that was so long ago
[05:22.91]and we both moved past.
[05:24.60]My life is pretty good, I owe it to him.
[05:30.04]My dad did the best he could.
[05:33.54]I love you dad
[05:35.85]I love you dad
[05:37.60]I love you dad
[05:39.72]I love you dad
[05:41.85]I love you dad
[05:44.04]I love you dad
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